THEFT OF WASTE PAPER

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25678, 15 December 1948, Page 3

THEFT OF WASTE PAPER

FOUR MEN FINED IN INVERCARGILL

<P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Dec. 14. Four men whose names were sunpressed appeared in the Magistrate's Court, Invercargill, to-day, for sentence on charges of the theft of waste paper bearing postage stamps, the property of the Railway Department. Magistrate (Mr W. A. Harlow, S.M.) said he would fine the accused in proportion to the profit they had made, but would take into consideration the extra labour and work done in their spare time to take the stamps off the paper and to treat them.

a £ C i™^ d mak jn« the biggest profit (about £170). was fined £4O on each of two charges, and was ordered to pay costs on four other charges. Another accused was fined £35 on each of two charges, and ordered to pay costs on four others. The third accused was fined a total of £42 on two charges, with costs 2n.S >U /,S har 5 es ' . Tl, ' : £ourth accused was nned £3O and costs on three charges The Magistrate said he could not understand the stamps going in as waste paper when they could be so easily made valueless by having holes punched through them. Because this was the first case of its kind, he would suppress the names of the accused.